Working Firewire in FC2?

[Bruce P. Morin]

Well,

To solidify my point, any distro, including this one, who ships a final
release without IEEE1394 support, can't really take the hardware seriously
now can it? I can see beta or testing releases without the support, but my
question was, "Does anyone know if Firewire will be functional in FC2?"

As I mentioned earlier, SuSE gets this right out of the box. With the
exception of Firewire800, this technology has been around a while. If there
is a bug in 2.6.5, then why use it? If I recall correctly, SuSE uses 2.6.4.


Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: raxet [mailto:maxer1 at xmission.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:52 AM
To: bpmorin at safepointetech.com
Cc: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Working Firewire in FC2?

I don't believe your statement on RedHat has really never taken Firewire
seriously. They have. Where they fell down was to incorporate 2.6.5 kernel
Without (by default) make module for IEEE1394. If I custom kernel that, it
works for me. According to an earlier post the reason they didn't turn that
on was to wait for some upstream kernel fix yet to occur.

RaXeT

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce P. Morin [mailto:bpmorin at safepointetech.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:39 AM
To: 'raxet'
Subject: RE: Working Firewire in FC2?

Raxet,

That's too bad. SuSE gets this right, out of the box plus their kernel is
built with multi lun option turned on so most usb multi-card readers work
without having to recompile the kernel.

RedHat has really never taken Firewire seriously as it has always been a
struggle to get it working, and that's a shame as it is great technology.

I am going to try the fix that Phil mentioned, but if that doesn't work, it
looks like we are going to have to change distros as I don't have the time
or inclination to deal with something that by now, should just work.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: raxet [mailto:maxer1 at xmission.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:15 AM
To: bpmorin at safepointetech.com; 'For testers of Fedora Core development
releases'
Subject: RE: Working Firewire in FC2?

No it won't. Redhat is in too much of a hurry to consider that firewire be
fixed in 2.6 kernel. :(

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bruce P. Morin
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:54 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Working Firewire in FC2?

Hello,

Does anyone know if Firewire will be functional in FC2? This is an important
hardware tool for us, and it wasn't working in FC1.

TIA,

Bruce



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